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uk.tech.digital-tv (Digital TV - General)(uk.tech.digital-tv) Discussion of all matters technical in origin related to the reception of digital television transmissions, be they via satellite, terrestrial or cable. Advertising is forbidden, with no exceptions.

Hi
Some time ago I was asking about trying to get space and speeding up my
ageing computer.
It was suggested that ssd would be the way to go.
I have now fitted a 2TB Seagate sshd hybrid disk.
I also had to fit a SATA3 port and I can tell you guys it is good, The
speed is soooo much better. The boot time is now 2 min saving around 3
min and the performance on the programs is also smoother...

Yawn! Can someone please supply me with downloadable HD 1080p
instead? Or even HD 720p that doesn't break up into squares when
anything detailed is shown?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34267265
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It's a 30kg television that I'm at pains to mount properly with 10mm
anchor bolts into a solid brick wall, except there is 40mm Kingspan foam
insulation and finished plasterboard sandwiched between.
I'm looking for some cheap / easy to deploy (read circular) solid spacer
material as I'm not keen on putting force on the plasterboard / foam
combo and risking it cracking. The TV screen will be...

Some time ago I spoke about the old set top boxes given to blind people on
digital switchover losing their use due to multiple buttons on their
remotes stopping working.
it seems that not many so called replacements of the learning kind will
work either, so I gave a dud one to a friend who is good at fixing stuff.
It is now working again, and the reason?
The top mat with the buttons on it...

Or at least one without a major show stopper in it? Has an HDR 2000T for
a few months and already the damn thing has developed a fault whereby if
you leave it in pause mode for around an hour then come back and unpause it
you'll find you have no sound. At all. The only solution is a hard reset by
pulling the plug! Thats on top of the mystery of the missing hard drive bug
that also requires a hard...

....that with every successive TV I own, the volume control graphic
becomes larger and more intrusive. It now looks like the "roof appeal"
barometer on the side of a church.
Does anyone, other than those with hearing loss, find this remotely
useful?
(See what I did there?)
Couldn't there be a menu option to turn it off?

Are they using some sort of wide stereo effect?
I'm watching/listening on internal speakers of a smallish Samsung set,
without any "fancy" audio features turned on, stray crowd sounds keep
appearing to come a different corner of the room to the set, almost like
a kid going by on roller-skates outdoors, quite disjoint from the main
audio.

September 11, 2015
RELEASE 15-183
NASA, Harmonic Launch First Non-Commercial UHD Channel in North America
NASA is partnering with Harmonic, a worldwide leader in video delivery
infrastructure, to launch NASA TV UHD, the first ever non-commercial
consumer
ultra-high definition (UHD) channel in North America. The partnership is the

4K TVs are becoming available and more reasonable prices and there are
some 4k internet streaming channels.
So when, if ever, will any of the Freesat or Freeview channels convert
to 4K?
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Michael Chare

Last night there was supposed to be a Horizon talking about the universes
dark ages and all that stuff. The actual content could have been dealt with
in about 15 minutes. Instead it rambled on for almost an hour going over the
same stuff apparently with some arty farty pointless animations and lots of
choral singing and people who sounded like they were talking down
drainpipes.
What a...

....but might be more at home on the planet Venus.
I saw at least one other like it on route to Marco Polo airport.
https://flic.kr/p/yijciW
Perhaps someone could describe it for Brian, I tried, but I can't
quite do it justice!
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BBC4. The history of Swing.
Seemed to me that it was quite a good effort audio wise considering the
acoustics of the RAH. However the dynamic of the music was much greater in
the second half than the first, but I still found the drums and cymbals wer
a bit down in the mix and compressed compared to the rest. Of course in such
a life situation it can get very difficult to balance things and...

Hi all,
apologies for what is slightly OT, but being a longtime reader of this
NG I value the expertise on offer.
My slightly ageing PC has an MSI Motherboard MS7592 6.0 with 4 GB DDR3
memory which I would like to upgrade to 8GB. OS is win7 64-Bit.
The specs on the MSI site say that my MB will take DDR3 memory modules
800, 1066 or 1333 overclocked. What does this mean. Most memory on offer...

When I could only get a message indicating that all was not well for a
second day, I checked the website. Wow!
Staff and rent not paid etc. It is unbelievable.
I found it slotted in well beside Al Jazeera, Skye and of course the BBC and
ITV services.
I am disappointed.